Re: I need for some copywriting for gnome.org

2005-08-15 Thread Quim Gil
I like this homepage. We definitely need to make it more updatable and with just the neded text, with a single word more. I would replace Technology by Depelopment in the navigation bar. Quim En/na Andreas Nilsson ha escrit: I am once again in need of people who can actually write. This time

Re: GNOME Logo Font

2005-08-15 Thread Quim Gil
Just my votes on this discussion. - GNOME shouldn't use any proprietary font in the logo, website and any documents generate having available free fonts. - Bitstream Vera Sans for the logo. Quim -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org

Re: GNOME Logo Font

2005-08-15 Thread YetZero
What about the luxi font family? They look good, and they come in some distros. 2005/8/15, Quim Gil [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Just my votes on this discussion. - GNOME shouldn't use any proprietary font in the logo, website and any documents generate having available free fonts. - Bitstream Vera

Re: Looking for some pointing

2005-08-15 Thread Luis Villa
On 8/12/05, YetZero [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here, I have my entries. I tried sending them last week, but I had to wait for moderator confirmation to send the images to the list as an attachment. Well, they didnĀ“t come at all, and I found where to upload them. Here they are:

Re: Yet Another Poster

2005-08-15 Thread Luis Villa
On 8/10/05, Andreas Nilsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Did another poster to match the Official Desktop of Happy People one. It seems like I didn't have support for thaiwanese, so that's currently three squares in the png. Will fix it later. Hope to do them as pdf soon, not sure how though.

Re: In need for some text for a poster

2005-08-15 Thread Luis Villa
On 8/10/05, David Neary [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We would like to welcome you to Linux and the GNOME dekstop. Welcome to the Official Desktop of Happy People! Can we take out Linux and? GNOME isn't just for Linux, and I'd like to see us establish our own brand presence (which might include

Some criticisms of GNOME

2005-08-15 Thread David Neary
Hi all, Here's an e-mail I got from the editor of tuxmag, which details some criticisms of the desktop. It raises some points that are interesting, and to which we should probably have an answer. Cheers, Dave. Tux Editor wrote: David, The numbers come from Evans Data Corp. And it's a

Re: Yet Another Poster

2005-08-15 Thread Simos Xenitellis
Luis Villa wrote: On 8/10/05, Andreas Nilsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Did another poster to match the Official Desktop of Happy People one. It seems like I didn't have support for thaiwanese, so that's currently three squares in the png. Will fix it later. Hope to do them as pdf soon, not

Re: I need for some copywriting for gnome.org

2005-08-15 Thread Luis Villa
On 8/15/05, Rob Sharp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/16/05, Luis Villa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Easy to get With support from Novell, Red Hat, Sun and many others, getting GNOME on your Linux or Solaris desktop has never been easier- just [link to ~davyd/footware/]click here[/] to find

Re: Some criticisms of GNOME

2005-08-15 Thread Simos Xenitellis
Hi, That was quite an interesting e-mail. Thanks for forwarding. How do we deal with it? Well, imagine the new version of OpenOffice.org which does not have the toolbars with those bold/italics/underline buttons, the left-right-center-justify buttons for paragraphs, allowing you to change

Re: Some criticisms of GNOME

2005-08-15 Thread Claus Schwarm
Hi, that's no really a surprise, isn't it? Given the editor, and his well known opinon about GNOME? For those that have read no issue yet: Issue 4 spend three and a half pages to explain how to add numlockx to the GNOME startup session, and it was unneccessarily emotional. Of course, it was only

Re: Some criticisms of GNOME

2005-08-15 Thread Tom Chance
On Monday 15 Aug 2005 23:57, Claus Schwarm wrote: However, after talking a step back from the emotional affiliation with ones own work, it may reveal that there's some insight to be gained in the critic, even in the mail from the editor you posted. The more interesting question would be: Is

Re: upcoming tuxmag article

2005-08-15 Thread Travis Reitter
On Mon, 2005-08-15 at 16:43 -0400, Luis Villa wrote: On 8/15/05, David Neary [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have gotten some notice that the next issue of tuxmag will contain a negative article on GNOME - it's likely to get some slashdot-type attention, so it might be an idea to be somewhat

Re: upcoming tuxmag article

2005-08-15 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Travis Reitter Do we need a standard FUD response (like a standard FAQ)? Guys, there was no FUD in this email, just a lot of standard Nick Petreley attitude. - Jeff -- EuroOSCON: October 17th-20thhttp://conferences.oreillynet.com/eurooscon/ You put on the pants, and the

Re: Some criticisms of GNOME

2005-08-15 Thread Quim Gil
You can't win a discussion with a journalist. You can, by not discussing. I would apply some Art of War here and I would create a Get the facts on GNOME-like page with a link visible in the new homepage or the GNOME introduction page. The objective of this page would be to summarize GNOME's